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The Scottsboro case is a case that had happend in 1931. Nine black were accused of raping two white women on a freight train that had been going through Alabama. The women had told police officials that they were raped by these nine men. So the case went to court. The men had lost the case and were sentenced to 75 to 99 years in prison. The supreme court reversed the convictions twice. At the second trial one of the women recanted her previous testimony. In 1937 the charges were dropped for five of the men and parol for the rest. Two had been paroled in 1944 and the third in 1951. The fourth had escaped to Michigan in 1948 and the state did not give him up to Alabama. All charges had benn dropped for all the men so they were all free from this case. //Nik P//

The Nine Black men included in the Scottsboro Trial were, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Roy Wright, and Clarence Norris. All nine black men got in a fight with some white boys. The white boys were out numbered, and thrown off the train. There were also two white girls who told the authorities that they were raped by the black men. This is how the Scottsboro Trial got started.

// Joe D//

//**Not alot was known on the two female prostitutes that were supposedly raped by the nine black men. There names were Rudy Bates and Victoria Price. They were the two overall-clad women found on the Southern Railroad train that was stopped at Paint Rock, Alabama. The black men that stopped the train were surprised to find women aboard. (A few of the defendants expressed the same surprise.) Both women claimed to have been raped, and in the subsequent trials were treated in a fashion that was considered "disrespectful" to women in the 1930s and would be considered "politically incorrect" today. The fact that they were prostitutes would make it seem like the black men weren't guilty. However, the women coverd it up to make it seem like they were inocient. They did find it difficult to find semen from Price even though she said she was "raped". This only created more suspisions.**// [|//Heres the site : P//]

//-Cioffi C.

after the Scottsboro boys were accused of raping the two women, four of the Scottsboro boys were let free and five of them were sent to jail. One of the boys, haywood Patterson escaped from jail. The jail sent two bloodhounds to catch him. It is said that when the blood hounds caught up to him he jumped a river. The two bloodhounds followed him and he grabbed both of them by the neck and drowned them. Also, one of the boys, Andy Wright, had to live under another name when he was let out of jail because everybody thought he raped the two girls.// //There is many reasons why the two girls might have lied about what happened. They were prostitutes so maybe they said they were raped so they wouldn't go to jail. also it looked bad for them to be with black people so they might have used it as an excuse. They might have also just done it out of racism. -Thomas P.//